Systems Software Engineer

Xcalar is pushing the limits of technology to help people discover deep meaningful insights from data, and our mission is to become the de facto standard for next generation Big Data Processing and Analytics Engines.

Due to our continued growth, we are looking to hire System Software Engineers to join our team! In this role, you will be a critical part of our engineering team, developing system software at the core of Xcalar’s relational compute engine.

Xcalar’s engineering team is responsible for developing the products used in financial services industry, government institutions and pharmaceutical companies to provide timely insights in production, and hence has to be highly reliable and scalable. All of us in Engineering take pride in the code that we write, and we go to lengths to ensure our products are dependable and robust because any bugs can major disruptions.

Duties

Architect, design, and develop the microkernel infrastructure and system software upon which the Xcalar product line is built

Participate in all phases of the development lifecycle from product definition and design, through implementation and testing

Design and reason about parallel algorithms to ensure that operations can meet the defined SLAs and run as parallel and concurrent as possible whilst remaining free of race conditions

Work on challenging distributed system problems, such as recovery, consensus, load balancing, etc.

Focus on delivering the highest levels of robustness, performance, modularity, and simplicity in a distributed, multi-threaded environment

Work with engineering leadership to ensure the design and development are on track and meet our product goals and quality metrics

Xcalar is an open and extensible analytics platform that delivers actionable insights with simplicity, speed, and scale. Its patented technologies provide a cloud-scale platform for the complete analytics pipeline including data preparation, data science, data warehousing, and ad-hoc analytics. Xcalar’s enterprise grade software scales to hundreds of nodes, thousands of users, and petabytes of data, for both cloud and on-premises deployments.

Xcalar uniquely extends native relational algebra on a scale-out platform for modern data, giving enterprises the ability to intuitively discover insights using a variety of open programming languages, interactive model design, as well as traditional SQL. It provides visibility, access, and auditability with sophisticated data lineage through all stages of the analytics pipeline.